Ready access to guns makes killing way too easy

[SecularMotion]

It has been a year since my assistant, Jennifer Mascia, and I started publishing The Gun Report, an effort to use my blog to aggregate daily gun violence in America.

Our methodology is pretty simple: We do a Google News search each weekday morning for the previous day's shootings and then list them. Most days, we have been finding between 20 and 30 shootings; on Mondays, when we also add the weekend's violence, the number is usually well over 100.

From the start, we knew we were missing a lot more incidents than we found. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after all, says that nearly 32,000 people are killed by guns each year. Slate, the online magazine, which tried to tally every gun death in the year after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., arrived at a number of 12,042, far higher than ours. (We include gun injuries as well as gun deaths.)

Part of the issue, as Slate has noted, is that it is almost impossible to track suicides using news media accounts — and suicides, according to the Centers for Disease Control, account for some 60 per cent of gun deaths. But it was also obvious that a Google News search was bound to miss plenty of examples; that's just the nature of the beast. Comprehensiveness was never really the point, though. Mostly we were trying to get a feel for the scale and scope of gun violence in America. A year later, it seems like a good time to take stock.

http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/4350118-ready-access-to-guns-makes-killing-way-too-easy/

[clffrdjk]

1. What you thought you would wait a little while and use it for yourself?

[link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172136502|

[Eleanors38]

2. Remember the 5 second rule when dropping food?

[clffrdjk]

8. 5 seconds sure, 3 weeks and a page or two back that's a different story

[Eleanors38]

15. Is he running low?

[rrneck]

4. Locked in GD.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024572786

[oneshooter]

5. Needs to be locked here. A duplicate. n/t

[clffrdjk]

9. funny, the original one that was posted in this group is still up.

[Eleanors38]

16. My god, how'd that happen?

[rrneck]

17. There's no big news about guns right now.

If a gun event makes the papers or is otherwise attached to big news, it's likely to get left.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. Ready access to the internet makes calling for the infringement of rights way too easy n/t

[oneshooter]

6. Why do you post more here, than in the foeum you are a host of? n/t

[DonP]

7. Because he actually wants someone to see it? n/t

[friendly_iconoclast]

10. Ouch! That one's gonna sting...

[SecularMotion]

11. Unfortunately news of the damage gun violence causes in our nation

far outweighs news of sane gun laws.

[oneshooter]

12. What are those "sane gun laws" you would recomend?

[ileus]

13. doesn't he/she have most all of us on ignore?

[clffrdjk]

18. Is that why she never responds?

What's the point of posting if you are just going to ignore the responses, I just can't understand it.

[ileus]

14. Ready access also makes saving/protecting lives easier.

My wife headed out for some ACA meetings yesterday, she took my little LCP along instead of her 642.